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Snowboarding

Snowboarding is winter sport on a board with bindings: riders use slopes, freeride terrain or competition formats such as snowboard cross, halfpipe, slopestyle, big air and alpine snowboard. `Snowboard` is an alias/equipment term here, not a separate sport card.

LevelVariant FamilyWinter Sport CategoryWinter sport

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Classification

Category Winter sport

Family Winter Sport

Level Variant

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung Board riding on snow with edge control, turns, stopping and depending on style piste, park, cross or freeride.

Geeignet für Suitable for people who like balance, board feel, resort culture and a technical learning curve.

Cost Rental board, boots, helmet and group lesson are more sensible than buying immediately. Snowboard, boots/bindings, helmet, protection, lift pass, lesson/club, warm clothing and travel. Snowboard school, PSIA-AASI/federation-adjacent school, resort, club, USASA/FIS-adjacent programmes. Treat snowboard as alias/equipment term for snowboarding.

First progress Stopping and sliding on day one; flowing turns usually after several sessions.

Fitness level medium

Was du brauchst

snowboard
boots
bindings
helmet
warm clothing
slope/resort
lesson

First steps

rent board
book lesson
learn falling and standing up
stop on heel/toe edge
try first turns on easy slope

Snowboard school, resort beginner area, club, university sport or national snowboard body.

Use helmet, wrist/protection as needed, suitable slope, visibility, spacing and resort rules.

Weitere Angaben

Tags individual, snowboarding, winter-sport, wintersport, snowboard

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

Control board and edges and, by discipline, achieve the best time, placing or score.

Teilnehmer

individual riders.

Teamgröße

individual; team score possible by event.

Spielfeld

slope, course, park, pipe or freeride terrain.

Dauer

Depends on format and event.

Wertung

time, placing, judged score or points.

Gewinnbedingung

Best valid time, placing or score in the announced format.

Ausrüstung

snowboard
boots
bindings
helmet

Wichtige Regelpunkte

course error
start/finish breach
equipment breach
unsafe conduct
resort-rule breach